[David Maynard]

I’ve been playing around with the LCD settings and it looks somewhat better. Considerably darker than the on camera screen though.

Quite possibly it looks bad on other systems because I was overcorrecting, if my LCD is actually that far off.

As for renders, I was just trying anything to see if I could narrow down where the issue lies.

Thanks for the note on Camtasia, I’ve confirmed that that doesn’t seem to be the trouble.

I guess I need to brush up on trying to get an accurate picture from my monitor.

Is the LCD on my monitor and on my camera so very different that I may never get the two to match? (or even close?) the cam lcd is set to a medium brightness. I suppose a direct analog output from the camera to a tv could be revealing.

[David Maynard]

Seems Camtasia has hijacked me. In Video Capture Screen, under Options-Preferences-Disk Manager it says “current selected – camtasia blah blah blah”.

I can’t find a way to get rid of this or go to the Vegas factory default.

[David Maynard]

“If you are capturing via firewire, DV capture is just a file copy. Bit-for-bit it is exactly what was on your camera.”

This is what I would expect.

“Is your LCD calibrated correctly?”

I have no idea, so probably not, I worked on CRTs before and haven’t a clue how to calibrate a monitor of any kind.

“Have you set the Vegas preview window to Best (Full) when evaluating quality?”

Yes

“Vegas has an extremely good DV codec so you should not be seeing any difference in quality because of something Vegas has done (at least I have never experienced this).”

Again, this is what I would expect

“How to the files look outside of Vegas on your PC?”

The same, not so good. I’ve tried several render types and viewed on several computers

“How about if you drop one into DVD Architect and burn a DVD directly from the AVI file? Does that look bad on your TV?”

I don’t own a TV and the videos are intended for the web

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I came across something that may very well be related since I posted.

In Sony Video Capture 6.0 (ow I’m capturing) under the “Video” tab, it shows “Camtasia Studio Capture Driver” and “Camtasia Studio Capture Driver Properties”.

Would this mean that Vegas is using Camtasia somehow in the process?

I do have Camtasia installed on this machine, but haven’t a clue why Camtasia would show up in Vegas, I certainly didn’t set it that way, and don’t know how I would change that.

[David Maynard]

Ok, I think that’s going to get me somewhere. I had a mostly succesful render with Quicktime since I posted. The options box is greyed out with “AVI Big”, but gives me compression options if I go to just “AVI”. I will play with it and see what I can get.

Thanks!